TY - JOUR
T1 - Analog simulation of Weyl particles with cold atoms
AU - Suchet, Daniel
AU - Rabinovic, Mihail
AU - Reimann, Thomas
AU - Kretschmar, Norman
AU - Sievers, Franz
AU - Salomon, Christophe
AU - Lau, Johnathan
AU - Goulko, Olga
AU - Lobo, Carlos
AU - Chevy, Frédéric
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© EPLA, 2016.
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - In this letter we report on a novel approach to study the dynamics of harmonically confined Weyl particles using magnetically trapped fermionic atoms. We find that after a kick of its center of mass, the system relaxes towards a steady state even in the absence of interactions, in stark contrast with massive particles which would oscillate without damping. Remarkably, the equilibrium distribution is non-Boltzmann, exhibiting a strong anisotropy which we study both numerically and experimentally.
AB - In this letter we report on a novel approach to study the dynamics of harmonically confined Weyl particles using magnetically trapped fermionic atoms. We find that after a kick of its center of mass, the system relaxes towards a steady state even in the absence of interactions, in stark contrast with massive particles which would oscillate without damping. Remarkably, the equilibrium distribution is non-Boltzmann, exhibiting a strong anisotropy which we study both numerically and experimentally.
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U2 - 10.1209/0295-5075/114/26005
DO - 10.1209/0295-5075/114/26005
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AN - SCOPUS:84973281909
SN - 0295-5075
VL - 114
JO - Journal de Physique (Paris), Lettres
JF - Journal de Physique (Paris), Lettres
IS - 2
M1 - 26005
ER -